Chapter 13; ancient powers and future dueling
Sonic was looking at the Pacific Ocean from the window of the plane, lost in his thoughts. Earlier that day he had a discussion with his ancient counterpart. It gave him a brilliant yet dangerous idea to find the last god card's location. Ancient Sonic's theory was that if the gods were able to 'sense' each other's presence, it meant that they were calling out to one another. But due to the bonds of the cards they were in, they couldn't not summon the 3rd to themselves. So the idea was that if Sonic could use the gods in a duel maybe he could use the power they would emit to locate the last one. But unleashing the gods didn't seem all that good of an idea to Sonic. He had no insurance that they would not go berserk. Which would create in this case heavy collateral damage. Maybe even death.
Once they landed on biggest island's airport they started thinking of plans of action. Sonic didn't mention his idea. In the end they chose to explore the islands on foot since they were small and probably using their duel runners would be meaningless. They started immediately walking around the first island. They were immediately impressed by the hospitality of the natives as well as charmed by the beauty of the environment. However there was no reaction to the god cards. Eventually they returned to the plane and spent their night there. Sonic needed someone to listen to him about his plan but Wave and Jet were too busy to listen to anyone, Amy would not agree since she was already against using the gods to locate the last one as last time he almost died. Knuckles and Silver spent all their time trying to unlock Knuckles' red eyes' deck's power so it could be as strong as Sonic's red eyes deck. And Tails would also try to prevent him. But seeing no other choice he decided to entrust his thoughts to Tails. He went to his room and knocked the door.
"Come in" Tails' voice was heard from the inside.
Sonic walked in.
"Oh Sonic. What's wrong? You look like feeling down."
"Listen buddy. I have an idea. But it may be a really dangerous one."
"Forget it then. No more danger in here."
"But we're running out of options. We can't just run around the world searching for one card. We need to locate it."
"And what is your idea?"
"To use the god cards in a duel. This will probably allow them to call their 'brother' and we will be able to find out where it is."
" Use the gods? Are you out of your mind?! Don't you remember what happened to me during my duel with Cosmo?! Sonic a non-singed one will not be able to take a hit from the gods! If you go through with this plan there will be victims! I assure you!"
"I know Tails but there is no other way! We have to find the third one!"
"These cards are corrupting you!"
"I don't wanna use them for myself!"
"Then why are you so eager to collect the 3rd?!"
Sonic never got to answer because at that moment the pendant from his pocket started shining allowing Sonic's ancient counterpart to emerge.
"I'm sorry for interrupting like this but I think I can help you with this plan."
"How?" Modern Sonic asked him.
"If you allow my consciousness to control your body my ancient origin will force the gods to obey me and not go into rampage once they are free."
"You can take control of other people?" Tails asked surprised.
"No. it's because Sonic is of my bloodline. And I won't really control him. He will be able to emerge any time. However doing that will cause the gods to go on rampage in case they do not accept him as their master."
All 3 of them remained silent for several moments. In the end Sonic expressed his decision.
"We'll do it." He said determined.
"But Sonic what if something happens to you and the other Sonic stays in your body?"
"We got no other options Tails. If you have any idea then go ahead now is the time. Say it." Sonic said ending the conversation knowing perfectly that Tails had no idea in this case. In the end the two-tailed fox agreed.
The next morning Sonic and Tails explained the plan to the team. The only one who objected with it was of course Amy.
"No. I totally disagree."
"Ames come on. We have to do this."
"I just got you back. I won't risk you being trapped in the pendant due to our lack of knowledge in the pendant's ancient powers while your counterpart is stuck in your body. I married you and having another soul in your soul's place is like losing you for good! So no! I won't let you get stuck in a dark void and instead have to treat another one of you as my husband! No offense" she said referring to ancient Sonic who was sitting next to Sonic the whole time.
"Relax I'm not offended. And neither should you be hesitant. Sonic will be able to regain control of his body any moment. Nothing will go wrong."
Amy didn't answer. She still didn't like the idea.
"Anyone else have any objection to this idea or an idea of your own?" Sonic asked the team. No one said anything.
"Ok then. Give me some time to make a deck capable of using the gods and then we're going out there."
The next half an hour Sonic created a deck with the fastest summoning methods he could find. Once he was done he dressed in his royal suit and then he headed for the closest town accompanied by the rest of the team. The locals immediately recognized him and everyone surrounded the duel runner asking for either an autograph or a chance to duel. Sonic signed a lot of autographs but instead of accepting any challenge in order to make it more interesting organized at that moment a mini tournament. Everyone who was there was gonna take place and the winner would receive a copy of firewall dragon, the so far strongest link monster. While Sonic and the gang were waiting for the final round to end, after a long and full of fierce battles, explosive comebacks and crushing defeats, the two consciousnesses of Sonic switched places. The ancient one took control of Sonic's body and the modern Sonic ended up in a black infinity but there were 2 spheres in front of him resembling his eyes meaning that his ancient counterpart was able to see everything he saw. He could also hear everything that was going on outside his body. Once the tournament ended ancient Sonic gave the winner, a kid named Ben one of the 7 copies of firewall dragon owned by Sonic and announced that since Ben impressed him with his plays, he would take on Ben with a special deck he was building lately. Ancient Sonic and Ben activated their duel disc and ancient Sonic allowed Ben to go first.
"Ok mister Sonic. My turn."
"Don't call me mister Ben. Just Sonic is ok." Ancient Sonic kept Sonic's humble behavior.
"Oh ok. I summon magician's rod. Thanks to its effect I add dark magical circle to my hand. Now I activate it. Thanks to its effect I check the top 3 cards of my deck and add a card that lists dark magician in its name to my hand and then put the rest of the cards to the top of my deck in any order. I add dark magician to my hand. Now I set 2 cards and end my turn."
"My turn then. I draw. I special summon blackwing gofu the vogue shadow."
"I chain with solemn strike to negate its summon" (Ben LP 6500)
"Serious player huh? Such a rare card. I am impressed. Fine then. I play monster reincarnation to bring it back by discarding electromagnetic turtle. Then I summon it again."
"I chain with my trap card. Eternal soul! I special summon dark magician from my hand. Then I activate my circle's effect to banish gofu!"
"Good move. In any case I summon 2 tokens due to gofu's effect. Then I use one of them to link summon link spider. Then I activate brilliant fusion. I fuse together gem-knight garnet and performage trick clown to fusion summon gem-knight seraphinite. Now I activate trick clown's effect to summon it back in exchange for 1000 LP after it is summoned with its stats 0" (Sonic LP 7000). "Now prepare! For I will show you a monster like nothing anyone has ever seen! I sacrifice link spider, trick clown and garnet which by the way counts as an additional normal summon due to seraphinite's effect! Ancient god of war! Awaken from your slumber and reign over the battlefield with your iron fist! Behold! The Egyptian god! OBELISK THE TORMENTOR!"
The earth shook and a fissure was created upon Obelisk's arrival. Everyone was shocked on the appearance of the one of the 3 egyptian gods who were said to be a match for Sonic's signature card, the black feather sky ruler dragon.
"Ok Ben get ready! I attack with Obelisk! Obliterate his magician's rod!
"AAAAAH!" (Ben LP 4600)
Sonic from inside his body feared that the damage was real and that the kid would not get up. But it jumped in enthusiasm. "So coooool! Such a strong card! I wanna beat it!" Sonic felt relief since his ancient counterpart could control Obelisk. But he still could not sense anything. Maybe Obelisk and Slifer together would be able to summon their brother and he could sense his location. The same thought crossed his counterparts' mind. He set the scapegoat card and ended his turn.
"My turn mister.. I mean Sonic. I draw. I set a card and end my turn."
" Is this all? Ok then. I draw. I attack with obelisk to your dark magician!"
"Not so fast! I activate the effect of my apprentice illusion magician! I discard it so dark magician's attack goes to 4500! More than Obelisk's!"
"You have skills I admit. But Obelisk won't go down this easily. I play the quick play spell half shot! My Obelisk's attack gets decreased by half. But he escapes destruction!"
"Damn! You still take damage though."
"AAH!" (Ancient Sonic LP 5500).
"I end my turn."
"My turn. I draw. Time to destroy Obelisk! I play my set card! Magician's navigation! I summon the 2 remaining copies of my dark magician from my deck and hand! Now thanks to my dark magical circle Obelisk is banished!"
"Not so fast Ben! Obelisk is the mighty god of war! A mere magic circle won't send it away!"
Dark magician casted the spell of the circle on Obelisk but it wasn't affected.
"But how?!"
"Obelisk cannot be targeted by your card effects!"
"Say what? Fine then I banish your token instead! Then I play double summon. I summon the 2 magician's valkyria from my hand!"
"Oh no!"
"Now you can't attack. The first valkyria attracts your monster to attack her instead of any other spellcaster monster. But so does the other one. And since I only control spellcasters you can't attack at all. I end my turn"
"Damn it! That'll give you time to beat me! It can't be! Noooo!... Nice acting huh?"
"What?"
"Before my turn comes my scapegoat activates summoning 4 tokens!"
"And what can they do?"
"You will see soon enough. I draw. Perfect. I activate card of sanctity! We both draw until we hold 6 cards! Now I link summon using one of them to link summon my 2nd link spider! Then 2 of them will be used to link summon proxy dragon! And finally at my last usable zone that proxy dragon points to I link summon my 3rd spider. And now! I sacrifice all 3 of my link monsters! I have to admit that.. controlling one god card is cool. But what about 2?!"
"2?!"
"Gates of the sky! Open up and unleash the mighty god of thunder and storms! Descend from your sky kingdom and bring terror on the lands of mortals! Come forth! The Egyptian god! SLIFER THE SKY DRAGON!"
The sunny sky was suddenly filled with black clouds. Lightnings stroke the battlefield around Sonic. Then everyone saw the sky dragon descending and floating above the ground next to Obelisk. Ben stared at the two beasts in horror. But at the next moment he relaxed once again believing he was safe due to his combo.
"Now to end this! I activate the spell cosmic cyclone! For 1000 life points I banish your eternal soul."
"NO! Now its backfire effect destroys all my monsters!" Ben said realizing that his entire combo was destroyed. "But it's not over yet! I activate the effect of my mystical protector! When a monster(s) is destroyed I can special summon him in attack mode!. But he is destroyed in the end phase. However you can't deal him or me battle damage from his battles! Also from the moment he is summoned you can't activate any spells or traps anymore! So I'm safe for this turn."
"Too bad. I was expecting this move. Slifer the sky dragon's ability activates."
"Effect?!"
"When you summon a monster in attack mode Slifer attacks it with his second mouth reducing its attack by 2000. However if the monster's attack reaches 0 it is destroyed. Your monster only 500 attack points. It is destroyed!"
"NO WAY!"
"Yes way!"
"But Slifer's power is not determined. Obelisk's attack is 4000. I can survive."
"Slifer's attack power is determined by the number of cards in my hand multiplied by 1000! I hold 4 cards! Do he has 4000 attack points!"
"NOO!"
"Obelisk! GOD HAND CRUSHER!"
Obelisk attacked Ben but his attack proved to be just a hologram much to the singed ones' relief. (Ben LP 600)
"Slifer! THUNDER FORCE!"
The moment Ancient Sonic declared THUNDER FORCE Sonic started seeing things. He saw a road leading to a fence which stopped cars from proceeding any further and several destroyed houses as well as plenty of tombs. And suddenly one word started flashing in front of his eyes. Inunaki. He had no idea what it meant. Then after this he saw the tower of Tokyo. So Japan was were the gods were leading him. But where was that destroyed place? He was thinking all that when Slifer defeated Ben (Ben LP 0) Sonic thanked his ancient counterpart for its help and said he would speak about his vision later. Then he approached Ben and congratulated him for his skills and presented him with firewall dragon and also a playset of dark magician the dragon knight and the eye of Timaeus which would help him protect the eternal soul card from destruction. Then him and the gang returned to the jet. There he told everyone about his vision besides the inunaki name. In the afternoon they took off for Tokyo. While the others were all sleeping Sonic who was flying the jet set the autopilot on and then proceeded to google inunaki to find a clue about what he had to do. They arrived in Tokyo at 6AM. Sonic had collected all the clues he needed but he felt he would vomit. He decided not to risk his friends' life in this case and left alone on his duel runner heading for the southern part of Japan. In the morning Amy woke up first and noticed Sonic's absence. Soon enough she came across a message written on paper. She read it slowly and then her heart started beating at the speed of sound from horror. Sonic said he was going somewhere dangerous and that he didn't want to risk their lives as well. She noticed also that he left his cell phone so he wouldn't be tracked down as well as the pendant. In full panic mode she started trying to call the police but accidentally pressed the safari button. It opened a webpage. It attracted Amy's attention. She read the first words. Immediately she screamed.
"WHAT?!"
Her scream woke up the rest of the team. They came out of their bedrooms and her annoyed. However when they saw her in this kind of shock they all got worried.
"Amy what happened? And where's Sonic?"
"In… in… inunaki!" she screamed in horror.
"Inunaki?" Wave said confused.
"What has a legend got to do with Sonic and us?" Tails said.
"He is going there!" Amy screamed in horror.
"Amy relax. How do you know?" Tails tried to calm her down.
She showed them what Sonic was reading last night. They all felt disgust after reading. Apparently the inunaki village was once a peaceful village in the south of Japan. However the village held a big secret. No one really knew what happened and it was now abandoned. One rumor was that its civilization was wiped out by a crazy local man. Another one was that a weird decease killed them all. But the most horrific one was that the tribe that once lived there practiced incest. As years went by the people gave birth to monster children which became cannibals slaughtering every last one of the normal humans in the village. After this the village was abandoned and everyone who went there never returned. Of course Japanese government declared the village and the area around it strictly forbidden. However he couldn't prevent anyone from going. Anyone who went there had full responsibility for anything that happened to him.
"You believe this crap? It's just a legend." Tails said when they were all done reading except for Knuckles who was still looking at his cell phone.
"What if it's not?" Wave said scared.
"Guys the old village is just a legend. It has been submerged by the dam built there later."
"Tails…" Knuckles started saying.
"What?"
"Look at this." He said showing him something. He had hacked into a newspaper web page and was reading the secrets hid there in English. There was a report. A report about a hunter going inside the area around inunaki. The hunter was found in pieces. The photos were horrible and Amy felt she would faint. Of course Tails immediately attributed the mangled body to be the work of a wild animal. But Knuckles stated that it couldn't have been an animal as there were weird footprints next to the mangled body. And they looked like human feet!
"What does this all mean?" Silver said scared after they realized it was a human footprint.
Amy immediately got up and went to the storage part of the airplane where she opened the back door and rode her runner. She was about to blast off towards the location of inunaki but was soon stopped by the rest of the team.
"I don't care what all this means but Sonic is in danger and I'm not going to lose him!" she screamed at them.
"We won't stop you. We're all going there!" Tails stated.
1 minute later they were all set. They exited Tokyo and headed southwest. Amy wished every second that the speed limit wasn't 80 mile's an hour because she wanted to reach at their destination as soon as possible. But she knew that they were all out of their water this time. Criminals and robots were one thing but cannibals? That was an entirely new thing. What would be the fate of the singed ones this time?
